I have a Jaunt round the Glasgow West End notice boards to see what’s going on in the centre of the universe but I also rely on mailing lists and you getting in touch with your events. The listings are free for charitable organisations – small charge for profit making events. West Fest: Disco in the Park
Sunday, 23 June, 2024 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Event by WestFest and Ya Dancer Silent Discos Lord Kelvin Statue, Kelvingrove Park, Kelvin Way, Glasgow G12 FREE EVENT BUT HEADPHONE BOOKING REQUIRED VIA EVENTBRITE Three channels of tunes on our Bluetooth led wireless headsets for all music tastes for a Dance in the Park – music requests taken. […]
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Saturday, May 18, 2024 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, Free Events, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival
National Theatre Live: Nye
Thursday, 23 May, 2024 at 7 p.m. GFT, 12 Rose Str4eet, G3 6RB From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country without ever being Prime Minister. Confronted with death, Nye’s deepest memories lead him […]
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Thursday, May 16, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Drylongso
31 May – 5 June, 2024 A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/ romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying — indeed, ‘becoming extinct,’ as she sees it — brash […]
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In the Mood for Love
22 and 23 May, 2024 Wong Kar-Wai’s romantic, political and heartbreaking film In the Mood for Love will return for two 4K screenings as part of GFT’s Anniversary Programme, providing a prime example of the kind of world-class cinema that will always have a home – and a devoted audience – at GFT. Hong Kong, […]
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City of God
Sunday 19 May, 2024 One of the world’s 25 Best Films as rated on the IMDb Top 250, Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s Brazilian crime story City of God has recently been remastered for its 21st anniversary and will return to GFT for a special screening as part of their Anniversary Programme in May. In […]
Rear Window – 70th Anniversary
20 and 22 May, 2024 It will come as no surprise that Alfred Hitchcock will feature in GFT’s anniversary year celebrations, with two special screenings of Rear Window on 4K to mark the film’s own 70th anniversary. James Stewart stars as L.B. Jeffries, a photographer with a broken leg. Bored between visits from his girlfriend […]
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Hoard
17 – 23 May, 2024 A dark but lyrical study of trauma, loneliness and thwarted sexuality. A young girl’s life is charted from living with her troubled mother to later falling in love with one of her foster carer’s former charges. Debut director Luna Carmoon crafts a raw psychodrama and haunting study of trauma, loneliness […]
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Two Tickets To Greece
17 – 23 May, 2024 As teenagers, Blandine and Magalie were inseparable. Years passed and they lost sight of each other. As their paths cross again, they decide to take the trip together that they have always dreamed of. Direction Greece, its sun, its islands but also its galleys because the two former best friends […]
Rome, Open City
17 – 23 May, 2024 A landmark of Italian neorealism approaching its 80th anniversary, Roberto Rossellini’s portrait of life under Nazi occupation remains remarkable for its immediacy, tension and power. Made in extraordinarily straitened circumstances, immediately after the liberation of Rome, the film follows Manfredi (Marcello Pagliero), a partisan leader, as he attempts to evade […]
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Shallow Grave 30 Anniversary
17 – 23 May, 2024 The lives of a trio of flatmates spiral into violence after they keep a suitcase of cash they find after their new flatmate dies in Danny Boyle’s blackly comic debut. Director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald would go on to create even bigger waves with Trainspotting […]
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Take 2: Migration
Saturday 18 May, 2024, 11.30 a.m. Illumination, creators of the blockbuster Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets comedies, invites you to take flight into the thrill of the unknown with a funny, feathered family holiday like no other in the action-packed new original comedy, Migration. The Mallard family is in a […]
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Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Fred Perry Glasgow – Share Your Youth!
Saturday May 25th, 2024 10am-4pm (Talk 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.) Fred Perry Shop, Unit 1, 217 Ingram Street, Glasgow G1 1DQ SHOW US YOUR YOUTH! Museum of Youth Culture is working to chronicle 100 years of Youth Culture with YOUR stories, photos, posters, ticket stubs, band tees and anything else you can think of […]
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WestFest: Joyworks – Laughter Yoga
Sunday 9 June, 2024 – 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. Joy Works – Let’s Prove It With Laughter Yoga Glasgow Theosophical Society 17 Queens Crescent, Glasgow, G4 9BL Laughter truly is the best medicine! Come along and join the pioneers of Laughter therapy in Scotland! Join us for an energising yet relaxing sixty minutes of unbridled […]
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024 | Filed under: WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival
Calliberations: A Celebration of Willy Maley
Friday 24 May, 2024 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Glasgow University Union, 32 University Avenue Glasgow G12 8LX This one day symposium celebrates the career and contribution of Willy Maley, Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow. ‘Calliberations’ reflects Willy’s love of puns and wordplay, encompassing: celebrations, calibrations, collaborations, deliberations, liberations, liber (book), […]
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Little Red Riding Hood
Sunday 9 June,2024 – Shows 11a.m. and 2 p.m. Scottish Mask and Puppet Theatre, 8 – 10 Balcarres Avenue, Kelvindale, Glasgow G12 0QF ‘Oh Grandma, what big eyes you have!’ A curious young girl weaves her way through the woods to her Grandma’s house. A journey full of surprises… A playful and imaginative re-telling of […]
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Sunday, May 12, 2024 | Filed under: Events, Fairs, Festivals and Fundraisers, WestFest Glasgow's Cultural and Community Festival
La Chimera GFT
11 – 23 May, 2024 The Crown’s Josh O’Connor stars as an adrift Englishman with an unusual talent in this playful drama centring on a gang of grave robbers on the hunt for ancient Etruscan relics. The Crown’s Josh O’Connor proves he’s just as good in Italian as he is in English in Alice Rohrwacher’s […]
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Saturday, May 11, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Aftersun at Glasgow Film Theatre
13 May, 2024, 8.10 p.m. At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last […]
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A Matter of Life and Death
Sunday 12 and Wednesday 15 May, 2024 To celebrate the release of the new documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger, we’re delighted to bring this fine example of the duo’s creative genius in action back to GFT. In this audacious Technicolor fantasy, a Second World War airman finds himself summoned to […]
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Perfect Days at GFT
12 – 15 May, 2024 One of GFT audiences’ favourites of the year so far, Wim Wenders’ beautifully simple character drama returns for the bank holiday weekend, and May’s Glasgow Film Club. Nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Oscars, the highly anticipated return to fiction feature filmmaking from Wim Wenders (Paris, Texas, […]
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Love Lies Bleeding at GFT
11 – 16 May, 2024 Director Rose Glass’ second feature, Love Lies Bleeding, in which love and violence come together in an explosive cocktail in this thriller starring Kristen Stewart as a gym manager who falls for a bodybuilder, with dangerous implications for them both. When gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) meets bodybuilder Jackie (Katy […]
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Billy Connolly’s Big Banana Feet at GFT
GFT screenings: 11 – 27 May, 2024 Buy tickets GFT 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB Screening in selected cinemas in the UK and Ireland from 10 May 2024 BFI DVD/Blu-ray release and BFI Southbank Q&A screening on 20 May 2024 BIG BANANA FEET (1976) is a fascinating and hilarious record of irrepressible Scottish comedian Billy […]
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Friday, May 10, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema
Special Screenings to Mark Anniversary Year at Glasgow Film Theatre
May 2024 Scotland’s leading independent cinema will celebrate a bumper year of anniversaries with a programme of special screenings taking place throughout May. The programme will showcase films that have been hugely popular with audiences and have played a unique role in the history of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) over the past five decades. Glasgow’s […]
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When Mountains Meet – Touring Theatre
When Mountains Meet tours Scotland this Spring At Cottiers, Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11 21 and 22 May, 2024 Tickets for Cottiers Scottish Tour Dates and Information The captivating cross-cultural tale tells the true story of Scottish musician Anne Wood as she travels from the Highlands to the Himalayas to meet her father for the first […]
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Bad Education at GFT
Sunday 26 May, 2024, 7 p.m. Queen Cinema Sundays Pedro Almodóvar uses his signature brushstrokes in this darkly thrilling story-within-a-story noir, which is our Queer Cinema Sundays screening for May. When an actor, Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal) visits a filmmaker, Enrique (Fele Martinez) claiming to be his first love now going by the name ‘Angel’, […]
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Aye Write 2024: Victor and Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium
Thursday, 8 August, 2024, 6.30 p.m. Event by:Aye Write Glasgow’s Book Festival and 404 Ink The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 2 Killermont Street, G2 3NW Join beloved Scottish actors Alan Cumming (Goldeneye, The Good Wife) and Forbes Mason (The Crown, Eastenders) at Aye Write this August for an entertaining meander down memory close. It’s been 40 years […]
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B Movie.Lust and Sound in West Berlin
Tuesday 21 May, 2024, 7 p.m. Exclusive Film Screening and Q n A with Mark Reeder Grosvenor Picture Theatre, Ashton Lane, Glasgow G12 8SJ Class & Culture Films present this exclusive screening of ‘B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin, 1979 – 1989,’ followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, Mark Reeder! The final years of […]
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At the Volta with James Joyce, GFT
Saturday 15th June, 2024 6.30 p.m. As part of 19th International James Joyce Symposium, the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Film Theatre and the Irish Consulate are organising At the Volta with James Joyce: a showing of early films with musical accompaniment, inspired by the involvement of Irish author James Joyce with Dublin’s cinema Volta – […]
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Thursday, May 9, 2024 | Filed under: Cinema, What's On Glasgow West End: cinema, clubs, theatre, music, events, festivals, community and more
Dave Arcari and Andres Roots – Making Connections
Tuesday, 14 May, 2024, 5.30 p.m. – 7.30 p.m. Building international networks & touring opportunities – how do we do it? Scottish Music Centre Ltd, 100 Candleriggs Glasgow G1 1NQ Join award winning Blues guitarists, Dave Arcari and Andres Roots as they share their wealth of knowledge and experience of touring the globe. An evening of thoughtful […]
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Glasgow Science Festival 2024 at the Riverside Museum
6 – 16 June, 2024 Riverside Museum, 100 Pointhouse Rd, Glasgow G3 8RS Glasgow Science Festival will be at the Riverside Museum daily from 6th to 16th June with dozens of free activities for all ages. They will be exploring how Glasgow’s Transforming through the themes of transport, innovation, engineering and technology. Test your spatial […]
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Mugstock Festival 2024
2 – 5 August, 2024 A weekend of music and merriment Strathallan Castle, Auchterarder, Scotland, PH3 1JZ Fantastic programme The Rezillos, Shooglenifty, She Drew the Gun, Henge, Samba Sene & Diwan, Capitol 1212, Gordy Duncan, Josephine Sillars, JMD, Mima Merrow, Pilgrims Society, Motopia, Alien Disko, Erb n’ Ting, Wonksie, How to Swim , Jigsawtiger, Stevie Elements […]
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